Some
Core Concepts from Entwistle Relating to Integration(Brian Campbell, 2016)

Below please find a list of core concepts from
Entwistle’s textbook.You are not
expected to incorporate all or even most of these concepts
you’re your 4-MAT review.However, I am
looking to see whether you grasp some of the most salient
points—especially as they relate to the main theme of
integration.

☐Personal Influence:Our own “Worldview”
influences our search for truth and willingness to consider
integration.Important for people to
examine presuppositions.

☐ Potential Bias: Our search
for truth is biased/influenced/filtered, by how we view the
world (our presuppositions).

☐Secular World View: Belief that science is the only source of
truth.

☐Naturalist: Believes that nothing other than the material
world exists.Two propositions:1) There is no God;2)
Matter is all that there is.

☐Supernaturalist: Believes material world exists, but it came
into existence because God created it.
The material world does not exist on its own.

☐Metaphysical Questions: Considerations of the nature and
existence of God, the relationship of God to His creation,
and the nature of ethics and aesthetics.
These considerations have implications for integration.

☐Determinism: Science believes that everything is determined.

☐Free Will: Christianity, believes that man has free will, and
thinking/behavior are not strictly determined—not explicable
by nature alone (Lewis).

☐Theocentric Worldview: God is the central aspect of our
existence.

☐Main Premise for Integration: Science is descriptive, not
prescriptive.

☐1. Enemies: Like Tertullian, some believe that faith
and reason cannot be in agreement.

☐2. Spies: People with a psychology background/training,
who do not believe in God, but see some Christian concepts
(like forgiveness) as useful or potentially effective for
helping psychological problems.

☐3. Colonialists: “Religious spies in the psychological
world” (p. 187).They plunder psychology
and remove what may be of use to “religiously committed”
people.Try to align psychological
findings to a Christian worldview.

☐4. Neutral Parties: Encourages the contribution of both
disciplines.However, keeps the two
disciplines distinct—separated.
“Parallel” models (Carter and Narramore).

☐ Psychological
Neutrality: People committed to psychology, who
hold religious beliefs, but not necessarily Christian
beliefs.

☐ Christian Neutrality:
People who are committed to psychology, but
simultaneously hold Christian Beliefs.
They do not rule out overlap of the two disciplines.

☐ 5. Allies: See Christianity and Psychology as two
complimentary methods of discovering truth.